Legal Periodical: Adult Entertainment And Zoning: A Starting Point For Adopting Or Updating Adult Business Ordinances
Teresa L. Watson, Adult Entertainment And Zoning: A Starting Point For Adopting Or Updating Adult Business Ordinances, 80-APR J. Kan. B.A. 30 (Apr. 2011)
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“This article summarizes the law as it pertains to the regulation of adult businesses. Part II provides some background regarding relevant Kansas statutes. Part III explores U.S. Supreme Court precedents interpreting the constitutional requirements for the regulation of adult businesses. Finally, Part IV reveals how the constitutional requirements have been interpreted and applied by the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.”
KS: Citizens fight to keep strip club out of Jefferson County
“The owners of the Oasis were trying to be annexed by the city. Meriden has no zoning that would restrict operation of an Adult Entertainment Establishment. When the City declined to annex, they fell under County zoning rules, and had to apply for a permit.”
KS district court grants injunction against enforcement of signage ordinance
Abilene Retail No. 30 Inc., d/b/a Lion’s Den Adult Superstore vs. Six, No. 09-2195-JAR, 2009 WL 1850597 (D. Kan. June 26, 2009)
Kansas district court grants preliminary injunction against the enforcement of state sexually oriented business signage ordinance.
Runaway Grand Jury: Activists Attempt to Redefine Obscenity Law in Kansas
“The biggest challenge for Cosby and his supporters is demonstrating that sexually explicit videotapes featuring girls who appear underage are legally obscene, despite the fact that the same material is widely available via the Internet, cable television, mail-order and other businesses. This note will examine the attempt in Kansas to redefine community standards and obscenity law, as set forth in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence. Section II outlines the history and development of obscenity law as it will apply to Kansas.”
Sexually oriented businesses can harm communities
Brian A. Weber, Dodge City Commissioner, Daily Globe, June 13, 2008: “I raise the question that if such businesses do in fact promote negative secondary effects, and if such effects would logically occur in our community, how is it not the responsibility of this community to be proactive in addressing this issue?”
